By Kent Paterson In Mexico, September boasts many historic dates with reverberations that continue shaping the nation today. Besides the official Independence Day holiday of September 16, numerous keystone events have occurred…
Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – THE DECK PLAZA WILL COST MORE THAN DOUBLE WHAT THEY ARE TELLING US
[[{“value”:” Every time the City of El Paso manages a large capital improvement project, it ends up costing between double and triple its projected cost, and the taxpayers lose every time. On…
El Chuqueño Blog – “So Dark the Night”
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El Chuqueño Blog – “Coca Cola’s Recycling Scandal”
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El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – OUR INTERVIEW WITH MINERVA TORRES-SHELTON, CANDIDATE FOR EL PASO COUNTY SHERIFF
[[{“value”:” Minerva Torres-Shelton served in the US Army in military intelligence before working for the El Paso Police Department as a patrolwoman in downtown El Paso for five years. She then joined…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – YOUR TWO CHOICES FOR COUNTY SHERIFF
Here are your two choices for El Paso County Sheriff: Republican Minerva Torres-Shelton, who has a long and distinguished history with the EPPD and FBI, or Democrat Oscar Ugarte, the Escobar-backed candidate with…
The Border Chronicle – 30 Years of Operation Gatekeeper: A Q&A with Joseph Nevins
Subscribe now Border Patrol watches over a newly built wall during Operation Gatekeeper in February of 1999 near San Diego. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) Share Thirty years ago there…
The Border Chronicle – The Highest Law in the Land: Journalist Jessica Pishko on Right-wing Sheriffs and Democracy
Photo credit: Parker J. Pfister 2024. Share For several years, author and journalist Jessica Pishko has investigated the power of right-wing sheriffs and their impact on democracy, elections, and border and immigration…
The Border Chronicle – Climate Change and the Reality behind False Claims about ‘Criminal Migrants’
Subscribe now This interview originally appeared at Yale Climate Connections. Destruction after 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines. Photo by Todd Miller Share For nearly three decades, Arizona-based writer and journalist Todd…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CLAUDIA LIZETTE RODRIGUEZ, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY PRECINCT 1, MISSPELLS “COMMISSIONER”
[[{“value”:” Claudia Lizette Rodriguez is as sloppy with her spelling as she is on her campaign finance reports, which she has repeatedly botched. Does she really expect us to vote for her…